Alberta Coal Branch
CREDIT: Copyright © Luscar Ltd and predecessor/successor companies; collection of A C Lynn Zelmer

These photographs and other images come with the kind permission of Luscar Ltd, now Cardinal River Coals and were taken between 1910 and sometime prior to 1972. The quality varies with the photographer; some are professional publicity-type photographs, others are family snaps. Caption information also varies, other sources will need to be consulted to definitively identify many location. All were reproduced from a copy negative of the images in the corporate photo album(s) and scrapbook(s) as found in 1972. Numbers such as 7/23 represent roll and negative number in the collection, not dates.

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• View "All Coal" (1 of 2), note height of cut from woman in distance left
• View "All Coal" (2 of 2), note trackwork quality and height of cut from woman in distance left
• View "Cat" and scarifier, 9/18
• View "Thirty" tractor and mine trailer, c 1945 7/7
• View 0-4-0 Mine engine and wooden 4 wheel buggies c 1945 6/3
• View 50 ton coal truck, CGR 100185 (Canadian Government Railways)
• View 50 ton coal truck, CGR 100185 (Canadian Government Railways) (large image)
• View Barn at yard mouth (distance) and creek [Mountain Park ?] 9/31
• View Barn at yard mouth and mine timbers [Mountain Park ?] 9/33
• View Baseball match at Mountain Park
• View Big showing "Taylor Claim" -- T C Dunn, Taylor, R G Drinnan and R Dunn 8/14
• View Cleaning up after a storm, Mountain Park (?) 9/32
• View Cookhouse
• View Dump and temporary loading track
• View Dump at Mountain Park
• View Edmonton newspaper ad "Here's What Makes Men Work or Fight!", likely early 1948 (small image, only headlines readable)
• View Edmonton newspaper ad "Here's What Makes Men Work or Fight!", likely early 1948 (large image)
• View Edmonton newspaper ad "More Facts About The Coal Strike", likely early 1948 (small image, only headlines readable)
• View Edmonton newspaper ad "More Facts About The Coal Strike", likely early 1948 (large image)
• View Edmonton newspaper ad "What About the Coal Strike?", likely early 1948 (small image, only headlines readable)
• View Edmonton newspaper ad "What About the Coal Strike?", likely early 1948 (large image)
• View Engine 11, likely 2-6-0 c 1945, 6/16
• View Engine 11, likely 2-6-0 c 1945, (large view) 6/16
• View Engine GTP 399 (Grand Trunk Pacific) pushing a snowplow 8/10
• View Engine GTP 399 (Grand Trunk Pacific) pushing a snowplow (large image) 8/10
• View Engine GTP 5 "First locomotive in use" (Grand Trunk Pacific 2-6-0) 8/15
• View Engine servicing in winter, c 1945 7/5
• View Erosion protection, 9/1
• View From Gregg looking towards Luscar
• View Gas speeder in winter, c 1945 7/23
• View Hand loading 4 wheel coal buggy, 8/13
• View Leaving Mountain Park on a shooting trip, 192?
• View Leyland Siding (1 of 2)
• View Leyland Siding (2 of 2)
• View Loading facilities, 9/28
• View Loading shute detail, c 1945 7/25
• View Log buildings in the shelter of the mountains, almost certainly Mountain Park, 8/13
• View Looking East
• View Looking Southwest, summer
• View Looking Southwest, summer (closeup)
• View Looking Southwest, winter
• View Luscar buildings, c 1945 9/12
• View Luscar c 1945 (large image), 7/12
• View Luscar c 1945, 7/12
• View Luscar looking West
• View Luscar looking West (large image)
• View Luscar mine buildings
• View Luscar mine buildings (closeup)
• View Luscar mine buildings and yard (large image), c 1945 9/31
• View Luscar mine buildings and yard, c 1945 9/31
• View Luscar mine buildings from top of tipple under construction (large image), c 1945 8/30
• View Luscar mine buildings from top of tipple under construction, c 1945 8/30
• View Luscar Terrace, looking Northeast
• View Luscar tipple
• View Luscar tipple construction, c 1945 7/1
• View Luscar tipple construction (large image), c 1945 7/1
• View Luscar town buildings, c 1945 7/14
• View Luscar town view
• View Luscar yard, mine buildings and town, still under construction. Likely taken from the top of the tipple c 1945
• View Luscar yard, mine buildings and town, still under construction. Likely taken from the top of the tipple c 1945 (large image)
• View Luscar, looking Southeast
• View Luscar, new powerhouse, etc.
• View Mine building, 8/24
• View Mine buildings 6/15
• View Mine buildings c 1945 6/12
• View Mine timbers and wooden water tank (unenclosed) 8/22
• View Mine timbers and wooden water tank (unenclosed), closeup 8/22
• View Mountain Park
• View Mountain Park Collieries' first load of coal, note the wooden hopper (or is it a box on a flat?) and corner bracing, presumably c 1911
• View Mountain Park Collieries' first load of coal, presumably c 1911
• View Mountain Park panorama of yard, 9/30
• View Mountain Park panorama of yard (large image), 9/30
• View Mountain Park panorama with loading, 9/27
• View Mountain Park panorama with loading (large image), 9/27
• View Mountain Park tipple, 9/22
• View Mountain Park view, c 1945 9/25
• View Mountain Park with cars waiting to be loaded, including Canadian National and Grand Trunk Western, 9/23
• View Mountain Park with cars waiting to be loaded, including Canadian National and Grand Trunk Western (large view), 9/23
• View Mountain Park with cars waiting to be loaded, including outside CN braced box 9/26
• View Mountain Park with cars waiting to be loaded, including outside CN braced box (large view) 9/26
• View Mountain Park, 9/27
• View New hospital
• View Official's houses and new water supply
• View Official's houses with what appears to be tennis courts to left
• View Outside sheathed box car being loaded, tipple details (closeup), c 1945 7/27
• View Outside sheathed box car being loaded, tipple details, c 1945 7/13
• View Overburden being back filled into valley; cat plus cat-pulled scarifier
• View Passenger train on grade at Mountain Park 1913
• View Point Creek drill
• View Point Creek entry [looks like there is construction under way as timber, etc., on ground at adit entry]
• View Point Creek Power Plant
• View Railway construction, a fill
• View Railway--Top of canyon and steepest grade; "Glory Hole" on right
• View Railway--Top of canyon and steepest grade; "Glory Hole" on right (large image)
• View Residential street with early automobiles [notes indicate c 1945 but likely earlier] 6/10
• View Road building, grader
• View Road building, tractor pulling grader (closeup)
• View Road building, tractor pulling grader (distant view)
• View Shifting a car using "Armstrong" bars
• View Shovel loading truck, 9/16
• View Shovel, 1.5 yard
• View Shovel, 2-3 ton
• View Shovel, Curran and Briggs
• View Shovel, detail
• View Side dump trailer on caterpillar treads 7/6
• View Snowplow GTP 395002 (Grand Trunk Pacific) being pushed by two engines. First engine appears to be GTP 388, 8/9
• View Snowplow GTP 395002 (Grand Trunk Pacific) being pushed by two locomotives (large image) 8/9
• View Station and power plant
• View Steam shovel, Carlton & Fetter Contractors 23000, c 1945 8/35
• View Temporary track to mine dump (closeup), c 1945 7/20
• View Temporary track to mine dump, c 1945 7/20
• View Tipple (1 of 5), side view 6/13
• View Tipple (2 of 5), side view 6/13
• View Tipple (3 of 5), three quarters view. Note CP (Canadian Pacific) stock car at left, box car red on top, white bottom 6/13
• View Tipple (4 of 5), loading CP 147800 double sheathed wood box car 6/14
• View Tipple (4 of 5), loading CP 147800 double sheathed wood box car (large image) 6/14
• View Tipple (5 of 5), loading CP 147800 double sheathed wood box car (closeup) 6/14
• View Trestle, wooden low, c 1945, 8/31
• View West leg of Wye
• View Wooden box and hoppers, including Canadian Northern 39858 and 69908, Canadian Government Railways 102038 (?), and Canadian National 126932, 7/11
• View Wooden box and hoppers, including Canadian Northern 39858 and 69908, Canadian Government Railways 102038 (?), and Canadian National 126932, (large image) 7/11
• View Wye at Leyland (?)